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About Me

I thought it was time I updated this a bit as it was way back ing 2011 when I first started my blog and crafting.
Married to Alistair for now for almost 22 years, who puts up with my ever expanding craft area.
I have 1 lovely son and daughter in law, and various grandpets.
I am never seen without some kind of knitting going on and if not that, it's cardmaking. I have recently started trying my hand at mixed media and sewing.
I sing with the Inverness Choral Society, which I love.
I also love where I live, the Highlands of Scotland.
Oh, and I love Autumn, it's my favourite season with all the fantastic shades of brown and gold, the crispness of the air, and the cosy nights indoors.
And the best bit ever.. is that I'm now lucky enough to be RETIRED!!

Sunday, 22 January 2017

North Star or Stars for the CCC!

Good Morning to Everyone, hoping all is well with you and that your weekend is going well, mine is a quiet one and pleased enough with that. I'm still without my laptop, it's had to cleared of everything and then data put back on. A major Windows 10 updated needed installing, which for some reason was being prevented,all a mystery to me I'm afraid, but I should have the machine back tomorrow. Now this means that I can't link up to the CCC blog with this weeks challenge, but at least I can post on here.So,this time around its Maureen who has chosen the theme and it's to be Stars and the North Star if you can, here's what I've managed;

The first card is made with one of the wonderful Imagination Crafts stencils and painted with Starlights. The Peace sentiment is from a First Editions die. Second card uses a Sue Wilson dies and again coloured with Starlights, mounted on to a lovely EF from Sara Davis,which has been brushed over with Creative Expressions Gilding Polish in red, the sentiment is the negative of the one on the first card.Hopefully I've managed to meet the challenge Maureen, I enjoyed doing them, as it made me use a couple of DL base cards. So thank you Maureen. Thanks too for your visits and lovely comments, I do appreciate every one of them.Please have a look at what the other CCC ladies create,they are always marvellous. Have a lovely Sunday and see you soon. Hugs Kate x 😉

Two fabulous cards Kate, both different but both equally as lovely. A lot of beautiful new dies have been used in the making of our cards for this challenge which I don't have and now I feel the need to expand my stash! Not good for the piggy bank, lol.Lorraine

Love them both Kate....the die cuts are magic on both of them you obviously had great fun creating .....hope the laptop is ready soon,you only realise how much when they are broken! I bought myself a new iPhone this week so I have been having great fun getting to know it....enjoy the rest of the weekend xxxxx

Hi Kate,2 wonderful and very lovely cards.It's nice to see DL cards for a change, and I must try and make more of those.I really like your designs, and the wonderful colours.Lots of crafty love. Jenny L.

Good luck with your repaired computer...always a bit scary when repairs must be done, and hopefully no lost data. Both of these are lovely. Your stenciling on #1 is perfection, and I love the traditional colors & happy festive design. Love your idea of the dry embossed panel, and overlay of the wonderful SW die shape. Very classy and I think you met Maureen's stars challenge just excellently! Good for you with 2 cards!!! Hugs & TFS

These Imagination Craft Starlight paints seem to be very versatile and you have made a wonderful job of stencilling with them on the first and than colouring a die cut with them on the second Kate. What a great idea to use the positive and negative of the die cut sentiment too. Two beautiful cards. x

Wow, these are beautiful Kate! I love the fun colours and the glittery elements on the first one, but I think the second has stolen the spotlight for me. The gold is just so elegant and I love the flourish in the background! Two wonderful star creations!

Computer problems, I'm familiar! Just before Christmas, both of our computers crashed, within a couple of days of each other. What a nightmare! I feel very lucky that I keep back up drives of all of my photographs and important stuff, or that would have been a disaster! Hope you get it all sorted soon, I know how lost I felt without mine! hugs :)